Chapter 141: Ghost Tree Child (1)
After searching, the nearby decent hotels were already full, leaving only a small hotel with simple stores. This hotel was not doing well and made a living by opening hotels and running shops. The old shop owner was over fifty years old and only lived with this little property.
The three of them talked to the store for a while outside the store and thought it was OK, so they settled in. But as soon as they entered the door, they found something sitting on the cabinet in the store. It seemed to be a child wearing a Buddhist garment. They turned to the front of the cabinet and looked at the child face to face. They found that it seemed to be carved from wood. No, Youyou suddenly remembered that this child was like a vine.
I remember Nie Xiaosheng once said that corpse vines are a plant like kelp. This plant is carnivorous. People near Dasheshu Kingdom often use it to deal with corpses. After wrapping them with corpses, corpses will secrete a kind of mucus, sticking themselves firmly with the corpses. Then, sucking the nutrients from the corpses. After the nutrients are sucked dry, the corpses will become completely wooden, and the corpses will remain on the surface of the corpses and form wooden patterns.
Look at this way, the child placed on the cabinet must have been transformed into corpse vines, but who did such a young child so cruelly transform his corpse vines?
Youyoule grabbed Nie Xiaosheng and signaled him to look up at the cabinet. Nie Xiaosheng calmed down and looked carefully. He also felt a little strange. At this time, the owner of the hotel also came over and asked, "What's wrong with you two? What's wrong with you here?"
Youyouli pointed at the child on the table and asked, "What is that?"
The hotel owner said: "This is a god worshipped by local religious sacrificiality, called Ghost Tree Child."
Chan Wu ran out of the room in a panic and said: Why are there such a child called Guishutong in every room?"
Nie Xiaosheng said: "This thing is not very auspicious, let's change one."
The hotel owner hurriedly came up and advised: "Three, every household nearby has this thing, and there is nothing scary about seeing this thing if you get used to it."
Youyoule saw that the boss had a kind temper and that this ghost tree boy was not an evil spirit, so let’s forget it, settle down first.
The three of them walked into the room. The layout here was similar to that of the hotel in Dasheshuguo, except that there were no windows on all sides, but there were a vent holes on the ground for ventilation. The houses here were all built on rows of closely connected trees, and behind the trees was filled with fog. If the windows were opened here for ventilation, the fog would enter the room.
After a simple cleaning, Zhuanwu stayed in the room. The two of them planned to go to a nearby guild. When they came out, they happened to meet the hotel owner. They were polite to both sides. Youyoule saw that the boss was relatively old and said, "What do you call uncle? Where is the nearby guild?"
The boss pointed to a small stall outside the hotel and said, "Just call me Lao Wang, the guild is not far from here. Do you go to the left and see the suspended suspension bridge? Just walk past the suspension bridge and walk forward along the plank road."
Youyoule said: "Thank you, Uncle Wang, then let's go out to do something first and come back later."
The two walked forward as Uncle Wang said, Youyouli looked up and looked up. Most of the houses above were larger than those below. The light shone from the top of the tree and was blocked by the big houses, and they could hardly be exposed to the bottom. Many of the houses above were tall with eaves, with red painted and colorful lead on the doors, and many auspicious clouds and beasts were carved on the beams and pillars. The light shone through the haze on the top of the tree, adding a lot of mysterious colors to the house above.
Youyoule asked, "Where is that above?"
Nie Xiaosheng looked up and said, "Those who should be religious houses. I heard that Jumu Kingdom is a religious country, that is, most of the country's rights are in the hands of religion."
Youyoule said: "I have heard of this kind of governance method, which can easily lead to it."
Nie Xiaosheng looked around vigilantly and said, "Why are you talking quietly, aren't you afraid that others will make you a corpse vine?"
Youyoule nodded slightly and said, "I understand, do you see if this is the suspension bridge that Uncle Wang mentioned? It looks dangerous!"
Nie Xiaosheng stepped on the suspension bridge and shook it. The iron chains on the suspension bridge were clattering and the wooden boards were creaking. Nie Xiaosheng looked down and said, "It doesn't matter. It's water seed below. It's not very high here. If you fall down, you won't die."
Youyoule also looked down and said, "What a joke!"
Nie Xiaosheng said again: "When I crossed the iron chain bridge with a cracked ground, I didn't see you so slowly, I chased us very quickly!"
Youyouli grabbed the guardrail on the bridge tightly, and walked over carefully, saying, "Isn't that helpless?"
Nie Xiaosheng urged from behind: "Okay, let's go quickly, there is still something to do when you arrive at the guild."
The two of them quickly stepped and walked to the middle of the suspension bridge. Suddenly, a person came across from the opposite side. The man was slim and looked even thinner than the people from Dasheshu Kingdom. However, they were walking on the suspension bridge and they were dancing. They came to the middle after jumping on the suspension bridge. Youyoule was so shaken by him that he dared not walk forward, and waited on the bridge and let the man go first.
The man got off the bridge, Youyouli stood firmly in the bridge, and said, "Does the people here walk like this?"
Nie Xiaosheng said: "When he walked over, didn't you feel that his body was very light?"
Youyoule said: "I felt that the man was walking lightly, as if he was not energetic at all."
While talking, the two crossed the suspension bridge and followed the plank road on the tree wall. They found the guild that Uncle Wang mentioned. In the Jumu Kingdom, the guild seemed to be very small, and even the facade of the guild was in the corner between the two trees.
The two of them walked in across the guild's threshold and saw that there was only a tall and thin guy in the room. The young man was wearing a brown-red hat and was cleaning the room. Youyouli folded his fingers and bounced the door and asked, "Is the chief of Dasheshu Kingdom here?"
The young man with brown hat closed the door and said, "Are you from other places?"
Youyoule nodded and said, "Yes, why are you closing the door? The room is dark and you can't see anything."
The young man with brown hat snorted, looked at the ghost tree boy worshipped on the table, and said, "Shut up, stop talking, let the ghost tree boy hear it!"
Youyouli looked at the ghost tree boy on the table, his body was numb, and said, "Can he still hear that thing?"
The young man with brown hat said, "That's not, the ghost boy's door has come to cause trouble several times!"
Youyoule said: "Ghost Children's Sect? Is it the local religion?"
The young man with brown hat said, "That's right, it's inconvenient to speak here, so you can go to the inner room to talk."
Chapter completed!